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Praise the sum.

Some of our landings were desperate adventures.

We are now prepared to meet the inevitable counterattacks with power and with confidence. My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. My name is Russ Rushstick. And you're listening to Bonfireside Chat, an undead favorite?

Yes, and as you just heard our special guest this week to discuss Dark Root Garden and The Deps, is Russ Frushustic from Polygon.com.

Hi Russ.

Hi guys, thanks for having me.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Yeah, hi Russ.

So this is exciting.

I should mention you probably already already know this but when we set this up I was very much the Dark Souls newbie.

I had never played the game. It took me about a year and a half to finally bite the bullet and buy the game.

And I can safely say that I really, really enjoyed it, but thank you for having me on. I will probably lack the background that you guys have, but I'm sure you'll help me out.

That's perfectly fine. A lot of our guests so far have been relative newbies.

And that's going to fall off as we get a little bit

into the rest of the game.

But kind of that fresh perspective,

like we want people who aren't jaded and just callous

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